The first-level Zhaohua Thousand-level Hall

Chapter 59 I Believe Him
The inner city gate squeaked and opened a gap, and blood flowed in from under the gate, like a blood-stained river, stepping on it, the shoes were wet with bright red color.

Langwei covered his mouth, not because of the bloody smell outside. Compared with the strong smell of blood inside the city gate, the smell outside was much lighter because of the smooth ventilation.

But when seeing the scene outside the city gate, no one would feel shocked.

It's not because there are more blood and dead bodies outside the city gate than inside the city gate.

It's for the heroism that hits the face.

Broken swords, guns, and halberds, damaged armor, the brutality of fighting for life, the overlapping corpses of people from the Central Plains and foreigners, the dead horse whose legs were cut off and stabbed into the abdomen, that step by step. The last barrier before the city gate.

Compared with the city gate, there are more soldiers that Langwei knows, and even the soldiers around Langcheng. Those big brothers are just like Feitian and Changying. They always treat him as the youngest brother and love him. Help him plead for mercy when he is punished by his elder brother, and always give him something delicious and fun as a gift.

But now those people who are vivid in their memories have become corpses, many of them have arrows stuck in their bodies like the people in the city gate, but they are different from the corpses that were purely slaughtered in the city gate. , here are more fighters with sword wounds and sword marks on their bodies, who have experienced a tragic life-and-death struggle, and made the opponent pay a sufficient price.

The guy who always told him that his new wife was waiting to consummate the house was holding a tall alien, and the two of them were fixed there. One had a broken knife in his heart, and the other had a machete in his chest and abdomen, bloody and bloody.

The guy who always chased him to call him big brother said he was a master of martial arts, and said he wanted to cover his own soldiers. He had three or four arrows stuck in his body, but he bit the carotid artery of a foreigner fiercely. Death did not let go.

There is also a 15-year-old recruit from Huai County who told him that he envied him for having a big general brother, and said that he must make his younger siblings proud of his brother in the future. But it was firmly inserted into the abdomen of a horse.

There are many, many people who do not know each other, many, many people who have been with each other for many years or who have just gotten along with each other. Behind them are the people of the whole city. They would rather die with those aliens than let these aliens step into the city.

Langwei closed his eyes desperately, and swallowed back the tears that were about to flow, at least here, he has no right to cry.

Gritting his teeth, Lang Wei caught up with Xu Qingluo's footsteps, and began to turn over the corpses on the ground one by one, thinking that if he found Lang Sheng, or at least found a survivor.

Xu Qingluo naturally also saw the tragic situation outside the city. She also saw the tall corpses of the aliens left behind. She even saw the tattoos and some accessories exposed on the corpses of the aliens more carefully than Langwei. , that should be the people from the Western Regions. In Huai County, no one except the people from the Western Regions can suddenly mobilize so many foreign fighters and attack so frantically.

People from the Western Regions!
Xu Qingluo's eyes were full of hatred. People from the Western Regions, she remembered, the third prince and the sect master, she remembered them all. One day, she would ask them to pay the price.

She walked step by step, and the only thing that supported her now was to find Lang Sheng.

At first, it was just people with similar stature, but in the end it was everyone, the soldiers who fought desperately, many of them may have disobeyed Lang Sheng's orders, and even listened to others' instigation to cause trouble for Lang Sheng. But at this moment, seeing those soldiers who would rather die than drag the enemy to die together, and didn't want to take a step back, thinking about everything he saw, Xu Qingluo's heart huddled tightly into a ball.

Then Xu Qingluo started looking for the survivors again, but unlike before, she was not just looking for Langsheng.

She wanted to find Lang Sheng, but she couldn't do it without looking for any survivors among these fighters.

Xu Qingluo felt that he had been rummaging for a long time. They were all corpses, corpses, without any hope of turning over. At some point, besides Xu Qingluo and Langwei, new soldiers joined the rummaging ranks. Not only did they search for the living, they began to separate the dead colleagues from those alien races one by one, and then dug pits on the spot to bury them.

Xu Qingluo had already told all the people in the city that the plague in Huai County was mostly caused by the disease caused by cattle and sheep dying from disease. There should be no corpses in the city, and even if there were corpses, they had to be buried as quickly as possible. Even if that person had died from the plague, his body would have to be burned. Countless people opposed this at the time. Fortunately, Lang Sheng helped Xu Qingluo to suppress it. Although Huai County was in chaos, there was no major disturbance in the end.

It's just that at this point, what's the difference between protection or not?
Half of the people in the city died before and after the city gate, and there were corpses everywhere, but there was no trace of life to be found.

Thick lifelessness and sadness filled the group of people who persisted in searching.

Someone already couldn't help whimpering, low and extremely suppressed, blowing into Xu Qingluo's ears following the wind, making her eyes a little red.

"There are people alive here—"

A shout with a slightly changed tone filled the entire city gate. At that moment, no one blamed the yelling soldier, and no one thought he was making a fuss. Almost everyone looked at the soldier who was almost crying with joy. up, and looked in front of him.

It was a thin figure with a green shirt dyed red, and a thick man from the Western Regions was pressing on his body. The man was pierced between the eyebrows by a sharp stone and died, but that man's shoulder was pierced by a long sword. His whole body was firmly nailed to the ground.

Blood flowed wantonly, making the young man's complexion as pale as paper.

"Yang Qian."

Xu Qingluo muttered the name, her hand reached the end of the other's nose, and she put it down for a long time. At that moment, she suddenly felt like crying, even though it was an emotional expression that made people feel weak most of the time , But sometimes, when it really reaches that level, when encountering certain things, I really can't help but want to cry.

Because it's not sadness, but joy. Joy turns out that there are still people alive, and joy here is not the real place of death.

Xu Qingluo glanced at the soldier who found Yang Qian: "He is indeed still alive."

The soldier grinned, tears rolled down his eyes, and he wiped away the tears: "I knew someone would be able to survive, such a skinny scholar could survive, the general and those brothers who are stronger than me must be Alive too!"

After the soldier finished speaking, he couldn't wait to rush to the other side, searching more carefully to see if there were any other survivors, and the faces of other soldiers no longer showed complete grief, nor did their eyes It was completely gloomy and hopeless, and a color called hope appeared in their eyes, and they devoted more energy to searching for Lang Sheng and other surviving people.

Yang Qian's injuries were serious, the most important thing was that he lost a lot of blood, most of his sides were wet with snow water, if it wasn't for the cold winter months and the freezing water droplets, Yang Qian might not be able to wait for treatment .

Yang Qian had already passed out, even if Xu Qingluo quickly helped him stop the bleeding and bandage him, he couldn't wake him up immediately.

After confirming that Yang Qian's injury stopped bleeding and his life was not in danger, Xu Qingluo casually recruited a soldier to take him back to the medicine building. This kind of injury still needs to be recuperated, but Xu Qingluo has not yet waited. Open it up and call people.

Lang Wei's voice came from behind: "Sister Xu, I found this."

Xu Qingluo turned around and saw what looked like a stack of papers in Langwei's hand: "Sister Xu, take a look."

Langwei's face was full of mourning.

She paused in her steps, she had already realized something in her heart, and the next moment she stepped up and walked towards Langwei.

It was a stack of paper, a stack of paper stained with a lot of blood.

Xu Qingluo's hands were trembling, she flipped through the pages, most of herself was smeared with blood, blurred into one piece, and couldn't see clearly, but the only positions that were fairly clear belonged to each one. A certain man's handwriting fluttered in front of his eyes.

That's Xu Qingluo, Xu Qingluo, Xu Qingluo.

Nothing but her name.

The top few sheets of paper with writing on them were as strong as the ones the man showed her that night, but the handwriting became weaker the more you turned down the stack of papers, and when it reached the bottom sheet, The blunt handwriting is the same as that written by the man when he first started learning calligraphy.

Some of those papers are very new, and some have been rubbed with hairy corners. They are not just written in a day or two, but not practiced in a day or two.

Xu Qingluo's fingertips gently stroked the stack of papers and the smudged blood on it, unable to utter a word for a long time.

There was a lump in her throat.

"That's what my brother left behind."

The tears that Langwei had been holding back finally fell, and while he was crying, he wiped away more tears that kept pouring out of his face: "I have seen my eldest brother practice calligraphy, he practices calligraphy every day whenever he has free time, and he saves everything Get up and put it next to your body, even I won’t show it.”

"Such an important thing—"

Such an important thing, if something really happened, why would Lang Sheng drop it here.

Langwei's face was covered with bloodstains.

Xu Qingluo pinched the stack of papers tightly: "Where did you find this thing?"

"there."

Langwei pointed to the north, and Xu Qingluo looked at that location, where there were especially many discarded corpses.

There was a sudden shock in her heart, and she raised her head suddenly: "Leave, leave here immediately!"

"Close the city gate and return to the barracks immediately!"

After Xu Qingluo finished speaking, she got up and pulled Lang Wei back, while shouting at the surroundings: "Follow me back to the city!"

She finally realized the big mistake she made.

And it was an unforgivable mistake.

"Sister Xu, why do you want to go back, as long as you look over there, you may be able to find your eldest brother!"

It was the first time Langwei refuted Xu Qingluo so loudly.

Those who were unwilling to leave with Langwei were those soldiers who were searching for the corpses. They were the people from the military camp in the city, and they were the people who Bai Lu had just watched the situation here and brought them to help.

"Miss Xu, let's look for it again."

"Maybe there are still people alive."

"Shut up!"

Xu Qingluo sternly said, "Stop searching immediately, and return to the city immediately!"

"Miss Xu—"

This time it was Bailu's exit, and he also thought that he might be lucky enough to find Lang Sheng, since he didn't see the body, who would believe that the general was dead.

If you go back now, you will never have a chance to find someone again.

"The general asked you to obey my orders, and I now order everyone to return to the city immediately!"

"The enemy is coming!"

Xu Qingluo's last utterance was almost a roar.

Everyone didn't understand Xu Qingluo's statement. How did she know that the enemy was coming? She just saw Xu Qingluo's resolute attitude and was unwilling. These soldiers still carried the few survivors they found under Bai Lu's order. Those who retreated into the city gate.

"Sister Xu, as long as you search again, you will be able to find Big Brother—"

Langwei didn't understand Xu Qingluo's decision, he was a little perturbed, and stood where he was, not wanting to leave.

"Stop talking nonsense, go now!"

Xu Qingluo pulled Langwei's arm and quickened his pace towards the city gate.

The city gate only opened a small gap that only allows two or three people to pass through, so it is convenient to close the city gate.

Hearing the creaking sound of the city gate closing, looking at the bloody scene slowly closing outside the city gate, there were all their comrades there, and everyone's expressions were a little ugly.

Some soldiers even looked at Xu Qingluo with hostility.

"Find something to block the city gate, at least don't let it be easily knocked open."

Xu Qingluo clenched his fist and ordered.

"I really don't know why I came back. Even if we can't find any survivors, can't we dig a big hole for our brothers? At least to avoid the bite of wild beasts"

A tall and strong soldier said harshly to Xu Qingluo, and moved the wooden sack by the side of the road behind the city gate.

"Zhao Mazi, please don't say a few words. That woman is afraid of death, so naturally she doesn't want to stay outside."

"I can't throw the bodies of my brothers outside anyway, I want to go out!"

The city gate was blocked, but people's hearts were also moved.

Someone shouted to go out, if there is one, there will be two, if there is two, there will be three, one, two, and three slowly stopped, even unwilling to obey Bai Lu's order, these recruits knew something for the first time, but It is at this time.

Seeing that more and more people around wanted to go back, and feeling Langwei's intensified struggle at hand, Xu Qingluo sternly said: "Going out now is just courting death!"

Her eyes were red: "The most important thing for us now is to go to the barracks to meet other people. With such a few people, we can't do anything."

She didn't want to say anything directly, and she didn't have time to explain them one by one. What's more, such a few people were no match for those people at all, if she expected it right.

"Sister Xu, what do you really know?"

Langwei stopped struggling. Xu Qingluo was never a person who was afraid of death or making trouble without reason. Her expression at the moment was wrong.

The next moment Langwei and others knew what Xu Qingluo was talking about.

Because the rain of arrows flew into the city from outside the city.

The row of soldiers standing at the back was the first to be hit by the arrows. They didn't even react, and they were shot into a sieve.

In such a scene, I don't know how many soldiers panicked for a while: "What's going on."

"What's going on here."

A long arrow came towards the soldier's chest when he was in a daze, and the long arrow pierced through his body with a puff. One can imagine the force of the arrow.

But what made Xu Qingluo most anxious was the subsequent change in the soldier.

He didn't die immediately, but his entire face had quickly turned black, swollen and distorted, and he fell to the ground, scratching his face and rolling over, howling.

"help me."

"Chen Tian!"

Lang Wei yelled at the soldier and was about to rush over.

"The arrow is poisonous, you can't touch it, he is hopeless, go away!"

Xu Qingluo pulled Langwei back.

"Look for a hiding place!"

Bai Lu was also shouting.

"I do not go!"

Langwei's eyes were filled with tears. He watched the death of people he knew one after another, and even the soldiers who were shot by a few poisonous arrows and died of pain and mourning. He felt like a fire was burning in his heart.

Subconsciously, he wanted to break free from Xu Qingluo's hand, with such force that Xu Qingluo's arm hurt.

The next moment, Xu Qingluo pushed Langwei violently: "Get down!"

With a puff, the long arrow pierced Xu Qingluo's shoulder.

"Wow."

The girl's suppressed moan made Langwei's feverish head cool down: "Sister Xu?"

"Sister Xu, what's wrong with you, Sister Xu, I was wrong——"

The blackened blood on Xu Qingluo's shoulder made his face full of horror.

"Sister Xu, don't die."

"Miss Xu, how are you?"

Bai Lu over there also saw what happened to Xu Qingluo's side, so he was anxious to come here, but he couldn't break through the rain of arrows for a while.

"I won't die!"

Xu Qingluo let out a stern voice, Lang Sheng hasn't been found yet, how could she die!

Her body can clearly feel the flow of toxins in her blood, because she has dealt with drugs for many years, and her body is resistant to most toxins. Although it is not invulnerable to all poisons, most of the deadly poisons are against her. It is impossible to kill with one blow.

But even so, the pain was still clearly felt. Xu Qingluo could feel the scorching corrosion from the wound, extending inward along the blood vessels and bones, and the skin wrapped around the whole body was tingling, like a knife cutting.

With trembling hands, he took out a porcelain bottle from his bosom, opened the cork, and found two pills inside, Xu Qingluo swallowed one of them, and handed the other to Langwei: "Take it."

Langwei's eyes were full of tears, and the eye circles were completely red. Seeing Xu Qingluo, he didn't dare to say anything, and swallowed the pill without even asking what it was.

The long arrows were still falling, and several of them landed around the two of them. Xu Qingluo held Langwei's shoulder with one hand, and stood up with all his strength: "Just now that was the antidote pill, although it can't cure all poisons, But it has a certain inhibitory effect on most poisons, if you really can't hide later, try not to be shot at the vital point."

Lang Wei's face was covered with blood and tears, and he only nodded and then nodded to Xu Qingluo's words. He looked at the arrow on Xu Qingluo's shoulder, which was supposed to hit him: "Xu Qingluo Sister, the arrow on your body—"

"Look for a place to hide now! Their arrows will never be endless."

Xu Qingluo didn't wait for Langwei to say anything, and dragged him to hide in a tea shed. Although it would be fine as long as he avoided the shooting distance of the long arrows, but with such a dense rain of arrows, no one had the confidence to escape unscathed. Breaking out without injury, especially when many long arrows were smeared with poison, several soldiers who were hit by poisoned arrows collapsed to the ground like a pool of black rotten meat, and some were shot The vital points have already died, and some of them missed the vital points, but they wailed endlessly.

Langwei clenched his fists, and looked at the arrow on Xu Qingluo's shoulder with increasing worry. Xu Qingluo just squeezed his hand tightly, pressed his arm, and rushed towards the tea shed.

The arrows from outsiders would indeed not be endless, but with the constant rain of arrows, there was the sound of knocking on the door, and the closed and blocked city gate slammed.

If Fang Wuyu hadn't ordered the soldiers to block the city gate with sacks of wood just now, the gate of Huai County would have been smashed just a few times.

"They attacked the city."

"Is it those aliens?"

Some soldiers shouted in panic, becoming more and more at a loss, and ran around more and more. In just a short while, several soldiers fell to the ground after being shot.

Seeing these soldiers like this, Xu Qingluo stopped abruptly and shouted: "Look for a place to hide and fight back later!"

"Don't run around, avoid the arrows first!"

Xu Qingluo's voice was a little torn, but few people heard it at all. Lang Wei also came back to his senses, and repeated Xu Qingluo's words and shouted: "Don't run around, hide!"

"Follow your corps leader, find the nearest cover and fight back later!"

Bai Lu was also shouting.

The messy soldiers involuntarily divided into several teams according to Bai Lu's words and hid nearby.

The long arrows continued to fall towards the city, but there were no casualties as before.

Xu Qingluo was leaning against the inside of the tea shed, her whole body, especially her shoulders, was tense. Beads of sweat were all over her body and face, dripping down.

She held a dagger in her hand, looked at the long arrow stuck on her left shoulder, and felt that her left arm had indeed suffered a lot of disasters recently, her left hand was cured of bone shrinkage poison, and her left shoulder was poisoned again. I just don't know if it will affect the flexibility of the arm in the future.

Xu Qingluo thought about it, but he slashed at the long arrow on his shoulder. The small half of the arrow body remained in the shoulder, but the large half of the arrow shaft fell to the ground.

Xu Qingluo's movements were clean and neat, but at the moment when the dagger fell, her whole body trembled fiercely, and there was another muffled groan in her mouth, with blood dripping from the corner of her mouth: "Sister Xu—— "

Langwei looked at the girl who had opened her eyes. Although the face was dripping with sweat, her eyes were clear: "We lost like this?"

The city gate was already crumbling, and the rain of arrows was still falling. They didn't even know whether there were aliens outside or how many people there were.

Faced with such a situation where they couldn't see the enemy but had already been caught off guard, not to mention Langwei, even those who had experienced battles could hardly maintain their composure.

"Then do you think we still have a chance of winning?"

Xu Qingluo looked in the direction of the city gate, with a bitter smile on his lips.

"Yes, as long as the eldest brother is here, we will definitely not lose!"

Lang Wei subconsciously said, the words were out of his mouth, and his eye circles were red again: "But the elder brother has already--"

"Lang Sheng is not dead."

Xu Qingluo interrupted Langwei's words.

"Sister Xu, I know you don't want big brother to have an accident, but if big brother didn't have an accident, why didn't he show up?"

Lang Wei thought about Lang Cheng, he had never thought about it for a moment, he thought that he had worked hard to match Lang Cheng, but when things came to an end, when it was really between life and death, he only thought of crying, he despised himself.

Xu Qingluo pressed Langwei's shoulder with his hand: "Xiaowei, it's not that your elder brother doesn't want to show up, but he must have his own intentions."

Xu Qingluo's eyes were full of confidence in a certain man: "If Lang Sheng is really dead, those people from the Western Regions won't turn back!"

"It must be your eldest brother who went out of the city to meet the enemy and then tried to lure them away. He wanted to drag the battlefield outside Huai County. I think the direction he left is the direction where you found the stack of papers."

Xu Qingluo took out the blood-stained paper with her name on it from her pocket: "He won't just leave 'me' like that, I trust him."

(End of this chapter)